Henry de Threlkeld' 20 Edw'd (1292). is said to have been Sheriff of Westmoreland. He probably was under Sheriff at this time, when the office of hereditary Sheriff was jointly held by Isabella de Clifford and Idonea de Leybourn as coheiresses of their father Robert de Veteripont.

Robert de Threlkeld 8 Edwd III (1335). March 29. Confirmation by John, Bishop of Carlisle, of Letters Patent of Edw'd III., granting licence to Robert de Threlkeld to alienate in mort- main a yearly rent of 74/7 in Appleby held of the King by yearly service of 2/10, which service is called Danegeld, to a chaplain who shall celebrate for his soul in the Church of St. Lawrence at Appleby. The Bishop also recites the charter of foundation of the Chantry, dated Saturday before the Feast of St. Gregory(March 12th) 1335. The Confirmation is dated at Rose.

His. Man. Com'n 10th Report, Appendix

Part iv., Bagot Papers, p. 323.

Robert de Threlkeld. The above is quoted but as being confirmed by Bishop Ross 4th Edw'd III (?) and the value as being 64/7 (?) with the addition " As appears by Inquisition taken by John de Lowther Escheator General in the Northern Parts. Town Chest Appleby."

William de Threlkeld 10 Edw'd III (1336-7). of Westmoreland, Had Licence to impark his Woods at Crosby Ravenswath.

Patent Rolls.

John de Threlkeld 12 Edw'd III (1338-9). March 24. Commission to John de Levyngton, S.P.P. an Augustinian Friar to receive the vow of chastity of Christian, widow of John de Threlkeld.

Reg. John de Kirkby, epis. Carlisle, 208a.

Testamenta Eboracensia Vol. iv., p. 338.

Sir Henry Threlkeld (1341). A dispute arose between Sir Henry Threlkeld, Lord of the Manor of Threlkeld, and his lay tenants of the one part, and the Provost and Canons of the Collegiate Church of Greystoke of the other part, respecting the nomination of a Curate to the Chapel at Threlkeld.

N. & B. Vol. ii, page 374.

William de Threlkeld 15 Edw'd III (1341-2). sold certain burgages in the town of Appleby to Sir Robert de Clifford Lord of Westm'd anno 15 Edw'd III. and sealed with a manch charged with 6 annulets about which was wrt S. Willi, de Thirlkeld not Threlkeld as we write it now.

Machell MSS. Vol. vi., p. 721.

William de Threlkeld 30 Edw'd III (1356-7). Sheriff of Cumberland to give an account of £40 with which he had to repair the gates of Carlisle.

Communicated by Edw. Bellasis, Esq., Lancaster Herald.

Robert de Threlkeld 1359. Bishop Welton made a confirmation of a grant by the said William Lord of Greystoke to one master and six chaplains, Robert de Threlkeld being one of the latter.

Jefferson's Leath Ward, p. 351..

Robert de Threlkeld 1361. appointed to the Vicarage of Crosby Ravensworth co. Westmerland by Abbot & Convent of Whitby. He died 1362.

William de Threlkeld 35 Edw'd III (1361-2). Grant from the King to William de Therekilde in fee of the manor of Dighton, co. York.

Patent Rolls, 35 Edw'd III.

William de Threlkeld 37 Edw'd III (1363). 10 March. Grants to Henry de Threlkeld and John Wadesly (former his son) all his lands in Yanonwith which his sister Isabel de Thurjynham held for her life. Inter testes, Sir Hugh de Lowther the son. Perfect seal, I think a maunch with a chief.

Lowther Papers.

William de Threlkeld 38 EdwJ III (1364-5). John de Crofton for William de Threlkeld and Catherine his wife. Ullesby Manor, Cumb'd.

Chancery Series, Inq. ad quod damnum

2nd numbers. No. 38.

Robert de Threlkeld (1366). William son of Robert de Threlkeld was instituted on a presentation by King Edw'd III., in right of his ward Ralph Lord Greystock, to the Rectory of Dufton, Westmerland.

N. & B. Vol. i., p. 358.

William de Threlkeld 40 Edw'd III (1366-7). paid a relief for the moiety of Eanwath which he held of the Barony of Graystock.

N. & B. Vol. i., p. 412.

William de Threlkeld 42 Edw'd III (1368-9). Release by Wm de Threlkeld Knt to the Abbot and Convent of Byland of all his right in certain lands in Bretherdale.

William de Threlkeld 40-1 Edwd III (1368). Prov. June 13, London. Prov. June 22, Rose. Miles, Executor with Henry de Threlkeld and John de Dent to Will of Henry de Threlkeld. Names his wife Idonea. Bequeathes 20 marks to poor of Helton and Yanewith. Will in Norman French.

William de Threlkeld 46 Edw'J III (?) (1372). Feb. Inq. taken at Penrith co. Cumb'd Monday next after Feast of St. Valentine, (Monday following Feb, 14), after the death of William de Threlkeld Chivaler dec'd Seized jointly with Katherine his wife & William their son of 2 parts of a moiety of the manor Uliesby of the grant of John de Crosseton (Crofton ?). Seized also in his demesne as of fee of the manor of Threlkeld with the appurtenances. He died Thursday next after the Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist last past, (Thursday following 18 Oct. 1371), and William son of John son of the said William de Threlkeld is his next heir and is aged 24 and more.

Inq. P.M. Chancery Series, 46 Edw'd III.

No. 65.

Henry de Threlkeld 49 Edw'i III (1376). Oct. 6. Fine levied in the Octave of Saint Michael between Henry de Threlkeld complainant and Thomas Taillor and Margaret his wife deforciants of 3 messuages 6 acres of meadow 1 1/2 acre of wood & the 3rd part of 1 messuage with the appurtenances in Great Stykeland consideration 100 marks.

Cumb'd & Westm'd Feet of Fines.

Ordinary Series. Westm'd No. 48.

William de Threlkeld 2 Rich. II (1379). April 18. Release by William de Threlkeld Knight son and heir of John de Threlkeld to the Abbot and Convent of Byland of all his right in certain lands in Bretherdale usurped by his grandfather William de Threlkeld within the bounds assigned by Henry late King of England &c.

His. Man. Com'n Tenth Report, Appendix,

Part iv., p. 323. Bagot Papers.

Henry de Threlkeld 3 Rich. II (1379). Oct. 20. Fine levied in three weeks from St. Michaels day between Robert Matthewson of Morland, Chaplain, William de Thorneburgh, Hugh de Salkeld and Thomas Lighclop, complainants, and Henry de Threlkeld and Johan his wife deforciants of 2 messuages 100 acres of land 16 acres of meadow and 8 acres of wood, with the appurtenances in Great Stirkeland consideration 100 marks.

William de Threlkeld 1390. Ricardus de Redman son and heir of Matthew de Redman confirms a Charter of the said Matthew, William de Threlkeld a witness.

Duchetiana by Sir G. Duckett, p. 213.

William de Threlkeld 13 Rich. II (1389-90). Knight of the Shire for Cumberland.

N. &. B. Lists of Knights of the Shire.

William de Threlkeld of Ullesby. 2 Hen'y IV (1401). Inq. taken at Penreth co. Cumb'd Tuesday next before Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary (25th March, 1401), after the death of William Threlkeld of Ullesby. Died seized to him and his heirs male of 2 parts of a moiety of the Manor of Ullesby with the appurtenances of the gift & grant of John Croston (Crofton ?). If he died s.p.m. the said two parts to go to the right heirs of William de Threlkeld Knt, his father. He died Nov. 3 last, without heirs male and William de Threlkeld of Crosby, Chivaler, is his cousin & next heir, viz., son of John son of the said William the father and is aged 40 and more.

Inq. P.M. Chancery Series, Hen. IV.

No. 16.

William de Threlkeld 5 Hen. IV (1403-4). of Crosby Knt. cousin and heir of William Threlkeld Knt. father of William Threlkeld of Ulvesbye son of John son of William paid his relief for two parts of the moiety of the manor of Ulvesbye.

N. & B. Vol. i., p. 498.

William de Threlkeld 10 Hen. IV (1409). Inq. taken at Appilby co. West'd Monday next after the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary (15 Aug. 1409), after the death of William Threlkeld, Chivaler, deceased.

Seized in fee of the Manor of Crosby raveneswath with the appurtenances in co. Westmoreland, seized also jointly enfeoffed with Margaret late his wife deceased to them the heirs of their bodies of the 3rd part of the Manor of Yanwith with the appurtenances in said County. Said William and Margaret had issue two daughters viz., Margaret wife of John de Lancaster, chivaler, and Elizabeth wife of William Lancaster of Yanwith, which John de Lancaster and Margaret his wife and William de Lancaster and Elizabeth his wife immediately after the death of the said William Threlkeld chivaler entered upon the said third part of the manor of Yanwyth &c., and are aged 24 and more. William Threlkeld died on Feast of the Conception of the blessed Mary 10 Hen. IV., (8 Dec'r 1408), and Henry Threlkeld is his son and next heir and is aged 13 and more.

Inq. P.M. Chancery Series, 10 Hen. IV.,

No. 14.

Henry Threlkeld 7 Hen. V (1420). Oct. 28. Inq. taken at Penreth co. Cumb'd to prove the age of Henry Threlkeld son and heir of William Threlkeld chivaler dec'd. He was born at Threlkeld in the said C° on the Feast of St, Michael and was baptized in the church there on the same day. He was aged 21 on the Feast of St. Michael last. William Threlkeld aged 60 one of the witnesses.

Inq. P.M. Chancery Series, 7 Hen. V.,

No. 84.

Henry Threlkeld 7 Hen. V (1420). Nov'r 11. This Indenture made at Crosby Ravenswath in the County of Westm'd and on Martenmas day in November in the seventh year of the reign of King Henry the Fifth after the Conquest of England Witnesseth that I John Milthorp subestraetor of Willm de Beaulieux estraetor of our said Lord the King in the Counties of Cumb'd & West'd by virtue of a Writ of the King directed to the same estraetor (the fealty of Henry Threlkeld son and heir of William Threlkcld Knight deceased contained in the said enclosed Writ being first taken) have made full seisin to the same Henry Threlkeld on the day of the execution of these presents of all the lands and tenements with their appurtenances of which the aforesaid William son of the same Henry Threlkeld was seized in his lordship as of Fee in the Counties aforesaid on the day on which he died and which by the death of the same William Threlkeld and by reason of the minority of the aforesaid Henry Threlkeld were taken into the hands of the Lord Henry lately King of England father of our Lord Henry the King who now is the rights of each being preserved as the tenour of the said Writ of the King in the matter demands and requires. In testimony whereof I the aforesaid John Milthorpp subestraetor have affixed my seal to the one part of the Indenture remaining in the hand of the abovesaid estraetor the aforesaid Henry Threlkeld has affixed his own seal given at the place day and year aforesaid.

Henry de Thirkeld 4 Hen. VI (1425). Oct. 20. Fine levied in three weeks from St. Michael's day between William de Stapulton jun'r Thomas de Burham and John Hankyn clk, complainants and Henry de Thirkeld chivaler and Margaret his wife deforciants of 20 messuages 200 acres of land 80 acres of meadow 10 acres of wood and 20/- rent with the appurtenances in Ullesby consideration 300 marks.

Cumb'd &. Westm'd Feet of Fines, Cumb'd.

Sir Henry Threlkeld 6 Hen. VI (1427-8). bought from Sir John de Lancaster of Howgill's four daughters and coheiresses in consideration L20 each the Lancaster moiety of Yanwath.

Sir Henry Threlkeld 23 Hen. VI (1444). May 18. Indented Articles in English made at Amotebrige in Cumberland between Sir Henry Threlkeld and Sir Thomas Strickland concerning the Government of Lancelot son to Sir Henry and for reconciling him to his father.

Communicated by Edw'd Bellasis, Esq., Lancaster Herald.

Henry Threlkeld, Knt. 25 Hen. VI (1446). Nov. 18. Fine levied in the Octave of St. Martin (Nov. 18) between Roger Crofte Vicar of Crosseby ravenswath co. West'd complainant and Henry Threlkeld Knt. and Alice his wife deforciants of a mediety of the Manor of Yanwyth with the appurtenances in co. Westm. Also of 4 messuages 160 acres of land 60 acres of meadow 200 acres of pasture and 10 acres of wood with the appurtenances in Threlkeld co. Cumberland.

Feet of Fines Divers Counties.

Lancelot Threlkeld 31 Hen. VI (1452-3). It was found that Ralph Baron of Graystock held of the Lord Thomas de Clifford sundry Manors and amongst them Yanwith and that Lancelot Threlkeld held Yanwith of the said Ralph.

N. & B. Vol. i., p. 356.

Lancelot Threlkeld 34 Hen. VI (1455). Release from John de Threlkeld to his brother Lancelot of all his right in a moiety of the Manor of Yanwith except so much land as shall be worth 20/- yearly. Dated Friday next after St. Katherines, 34 Hen. VI.

Sir Lancelot Threlkeld 9 Edw'd IV (1470). June 28. Inq. taken at Keterying co. Northampton after the death of Sir Henry Bromflete Knt, Lord Vessy (date of death illegible). Margaret wife of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld Knt. is his daughter and next heir and is aged 26 and more.

Lancelot Thirkyld 7 Hen. VII (1491-2). Plaintiff and John Flemyng defendant. Out-lawry on a recognizance for debt. Plaintift took the issues and profits of certain lands that were late of Sir Richard Huddelston which he received in right of his wife.

10 Hen. VII (1494). Inq. (record in bad condition) taken after the death of Sir John Hudylston Knt. dec'd. Oct. 28. Richard Hudylston son of Sir Richard Hudylston Knt. son of the said Sir John Hudylston is his cousin and next heir and was aged 17 on the Feast of St. Katherine the Virgin last past (25 Nov).

Chancery Inq. P.M. Cumb'd. 10 Hen. VII.

No. 4.

July 26. (1499). On a marble slab fixed in the south wall of the chancel of Penrith church, charged with the arms of Moresby, a cross, in the first quarter a cinque foil, is the following inscription : Hie jacet Christophorus Moresby Miles, qui obiit 26 die Mensis Julii A.D. MCCCCL- XXXXIX Jesu Mc'y.

Jefferson's Leath Ward, p. 51.

Dec. 16. (1499). Inq. taken at Durham Monday 16 Dec'r 6th Bishop Fox (1499) after the death of Sir Christopher Moresby, Knt. He died 25 July last and Ann Pickering is his daughter and next heir and is aged 30 and more.

Sir Lancelot Thyrkyll 17 Hen. VII (1501). Nov. 17. One of the Knights of the Bath created at the marriage of Arthur Prince of Wales.

Beatson's Political Index, Part 2, p. 105.

Sir Lancelot Thyrkeld 14 & 17 Hen. VII. (1498) & (1502). Inq. taken at Caldbecke co. Cumb'd 9 June 17 Hen. 7 (1502) after the death of Margaret Hudelston widow deceased. Seised of manors of Blennerhasset and Upmanby in said c° and lands in Penreth and Caldegate next Carlisle in said c°. She died 17 Oct. 14 Hen. VII (1498) and Richard Hudelston is her son and next heir and is aged 21 and more. Sir Lancelot Thyrkeld Knt, occupied and received the issues and profits of the said Manors &c., from the said 17 Oct. 14 Hen. VII to the Feast of St. Martin m hyeme (11 Nov.) 17 Hen. VII (1502) and the said Richard Hudelston occupied and received the issues of the same from the said Feast of St. Martin to the date of this Inq.

Inq. P.M. Chancery Series, 19 Hen. VII.

No. 86.

Sir Lancelot Threlkeld 18 Hen. VII (1503). Escorted Margaret to Scotland to be married to James IV. of Scotland.

Sir Lancelot Trikkeld 21 Hen. VII (1506). May 5. Special Pardon and release to Sir Lancelot Trikkeld Knt. of Yanwith c° Westm. late Sheriff of Cumberland of all matters connected with his said office and of all entries on the manors of Blenerhasset and Upmanby c° Cumb and on all lands &c. in those places and in Carlisle & Penrith in same c° Amotbrige c° Westm. & Egilthorp Barnyngham Bows Bolron (?) & Lartyngton c° York lately the inheritance of Margaret wife of the said Lancelot deceased and in the King's hands by the minority of Richard Huddilston her son & heir.

Patent Rolls, 21 Hen. VII. Part 3, mem.

22.

Sir Lancelot Threlkeld 3 Hen. VIII (1512). Partition Deed of the Estates of the late Sir Lancelot Threlkeld between Thomas Dudley and Grace his wyf one of the doughters and Heyrs of Lancelote Threlkeld Knyght of the one Part and James Pykeryng and Wynefride his wyf Another of the doughters of the second part and Willm Pykeryng and Wynefride his wyf another of the doughters of the third part.

He died 18 Sept. last & Christopher Stapilton is his son and next heir and is aged 33 and more.

Chancery Inq. P.M. 10 Hen. VIII. No.

50.

Little is known of the personal or domestic history of the family, and that little commences with the first Sir Lancelot. He seems to have been, at one time, at variance with his father, but the cause of this does not appear. He married Margaret, the only child and heiress of Henry Bromflete, Lord Vescy, and widow of John, Lord Clifford, who fell at Ferry Bridge, in 1461, at the early age of twenty-six, and from the terms of Inq. P.M., held on Lord Vescy in 1470, Margaret, then the wife of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, must have been very young, although the mother of two children, at the death of her first husband. If she brought an accession of fortune and of consequence to her second lord it was not unaccompanied by care, for her sons had to be secreted from the vengeance of the Yorkist faction. Lord Clifford having incurred their special hatred by slaying the young Earl of Rutland, whom they always described as a child compared with his adversary, whereas there was, after all, no great disparity of age between the two.

That Sir Lancelot strove not unsuccessfully to preserve the lives of his stepsons, the not unworthy words of Wordsworth bear record—

" Give Sir Lancelot Threlkeld praise,

Hear it good man old in days,

Thou tree of covert and of rest

For this young bird that was distrest ;

Among thy branches safe he lay,

And he was free to sport and play

When falcons were abroad for prey."

It is a curious fact, which one cannot help associating; with Sir Lancelot and the concealment of the young Cliffords, that there is a secret chamber or nook at Yanwath Hall, only discovered within the last few years. Sir Lancelot had three sons ; Lancelot his successor, James or John, of whom nothing seems to be known, and Christopher, of whom more hereafter. He had also four daughters ; Margaret, who married Sir Christopher Moresby ; Johan, who became the wife of Sir Brian Stapleton ; Anne, who married Sir Hugh Lowther ; and Elizabeth. Sir Lancelot probably died before 1492. He was buried in Crosby Ravensworth church, where the Arms of Threlkeld, impaling the cross of the Vescys and the bend fleury of the Bromfletes in a manner not strictly in accordance with the rules of heraldry, may be seen on the massive tomb, in the vault beneath which, Sept. 20, 1745, was also laid Robert Lowther, the eccentric and tyrannical father of the sole Earl of Lonsdale of the first creation, who, in both characteristics far exceeded the paternal example.

His wife no doubt survived him, for she died at her ancestral estate in Londesborough, April 14, 1493.

The eldest son of Sir Lancelot, and the second of that name, married firstly, Elyn Radclyffe, as I find briefly stated in a pedigree attached to my papers on the Lowther House, in Penrith. Writing at Naples, without being able to refer to my authority, I cannot give my proofs, but I am sure the statement is correct. I think she would be the mother of his children. His second marriage was, like his father's, calculated to bring eclat and a good dowry to his house, for Margaret was the illegitimate daughter of Richard Neville, the great Earl of Warwick, and widow of Richard Hudleston, K.B., eldest son of Sir John Hudleston, of Millom, whom he predeceased. By Sir Richard she had a son and two daughters. Sir Lancelot was created a Knight of the Bath at the marriage of Arthur, Prince of Wales, in 1501 ; he was also one of the escort of the Princess Margaret when she went to Scotland to marry King James the IV. of that kingdom. I am unable to state when he or his second wife died, or where they were buried ; but he was dead before 1513, the date of the partition deed of his estate amongst his three daughters. Elizabeth, who had married James Pickering, took Crosby Ravensworth ; Winifred, who married William Pickering, the brother of James, (both younger sons of Anne, the heiress of Sir Christopher Moresby by their aunt Margaret Threlkeld, which Anne had married Sir James Pickering of Killington and Winderwath,) took Threlkeld ; and Grace, the eldest daughter, whom Dugdale and some other genealogists erroneously call Sarah, brought her husband, Thomas Dudley, the beautiful domain of Yanwath, the descent of which I propose to follow till it became merged in the wide-spreading possessions of the Lowther family.

I forbear attempting to connect any special members of the family of Threlkeld with the various dates at which Yanwath Hall was built, added to, or altered. The able paper by Dr. Taylor in the first Vol. of our Transactions, gives the periods approximately from the Architectural features ; but I must protest against the statements made in Parker's Domestic Architecture, Vol. II, p. 216, where it is asserted that " the original structure is believed to have been built by John de Sutton who married Margaret, heiress of the De Somerie family, in 1322."

Now the Suttons or Dudleys, for the younger branches chose to take the title as a surname, had no connection with Westmerland or Cumberland until Edmund Sutton, eldest son of John, 4th Baron Dudley, married to his second wife, Maud daughter of Thomas, 8th Baron Clifford (and sister of John, 9th Lord, first husband of the Bromflete heiress), and it was the marriage of Thomas, son of this Edmund and Maud, with Grace Threlkeld that brought about the Yanwath connection soon after 1500.

I have no wish to disparage a very valuable work, but probably this utterly baseless assertion was foisted upon the unsuspecting Parker by the same individual who led him to insert a statement in Vol. II. p. 225, that "in the first year of Edward II, Licences were granted to Willelmus de Dacre and Richardus le Brun to crenellate their houses, both described as situated at Dunmalloch, in the Marches of Cumberland, (Dunmalloch in Marchibus). There seems good reason to believe that these two houses are Dacre Castle and Brougham Hall, which are within a few miles of each other, and both near to a hill called Dunmaloch." There is no reason to believe any such erroneous assertion. There were three licences to crenellate granted in the first year of Edward II. One was to Robert de Tylliol for mansum suum at Scaleby ; another to Willelmus de Dacre for mansum suum near Dunmalloght, which refers clearly to Dacre Castle ; and the other to Richardus le Brun for mansum suum at Drombogh which is undoubtedly Drumbrugh, and has no reference whatever to Brougham Hall which, it is well known, has every claim to beauty of site and architecture, but none to antiquity. I do not know at what degree of fortification a licence to crenellate became necessary ; certainly Pele Towers in the Border districts were exempt; but Yanwath had a fortified area, and was situated at a most important ford, and yet it is not amongst those enumerated in Parker's List.

With regard to Threlkeld Hall, there are doubts about its actual site, the very stones having been taken away.

The Hall of Crosby Ravensworth still stands, though many of its original features have vanished ; enough, however, I think, yet remain to enable a well-qualified member of our Society to give us an interesting article on a dwelling in which Sir Lancelot Threlkeld took great delight ; for, in the oft-repeated quotation, he was wont to say he had " three noble houses ; one for pleasure, Crosby in Westmorland, where he had a park full of deer ; one for profit and warmth, wherein to reside in winter, namely, Yanwith, nigh Penrith ; and the third, Threlkeld, well stocked with tenants to go to the wars."

Over the main entrance of Crosby Ravensworth Hall are eight Coats of Arms :

1st. A Lion rampant, for Pickering.

2nd. 3 Chaplets, for Lascells of Eskrigg.

3rd. A Cross, with a Cinquefoil in the 1st quarter, for Moresby.

4th. Party per fess 6 Martlets, counterchanged, for Fenwick.

5th. A Lion rampant, debruised with a bend, for Tilliol.

6th. A Cross, probably for Vesci (?)

7th. A Lion rampant, for (?)

8th. A Maunch, for Threlkeld.

Crest a Paw (?) displayed.

Supporters, dexter a Lion, sinister a Unicorn.

The singular way in which Crosby Ravensworth passed from Sir John Lowther, father to the 1st Bart., who had purchased it from the last of the Pickerings, and ultimately reverted to the house of Lowther, is worthy of notice. Sir John gave it as a marriage portion to his daughter Frances, the wife of John Dodsworth ; after several transfers, it was bought by Robert Lowther, a scion of the house, whose son became, on failure of the stem, the head of the family, and ever since it has formed a portion of their accumulated estates.

Of James Threlkeld (or John, as he is called in the Rawlinson Manuscript Pedigree in the Bodleian Library), the second son of the first Sir Lancelot Threlkeld and his wife the Vescy heiress, I find no record beyond the doubtful name.

Christopher, the third son, married Johan, heiress of John Carliell, and acquired with her estates in both Yorkshire and Durham, and their male line was continued, as is indicated in the pedigree, to the third generation, but I find nothing to characterize these descendants individually. The outline of life sketched by Barry Cornwall might have been the moan of this offshoot —

" We are born, we laugh, we weep,

We love, we droop, we die ;

Ah! wherefore do we laugh or weep ?

Why do we live or die ?

Who knows that secret deep ?

Alas ! not I."

Christopher Thirlkeld 4th Bp. Sherwood, 1486-7), Jan. 10. Inq. at Bishop Auckland after the death of John Carlile. Johan aged 21 wife of Christopher Thirlkeld is his daughter and next heir.

Durham Inq. P.M.

Christopher Thyrkeld 31 Hen. VIII (1539). Sept. 22 Inq. taken at the Castle of York after the death of Christopher Thyrkeld Esq. dec'd. Seized of property in Estrop &c. Son Christopher married or to marry Josia daughter of Sir William Constable of Hatfield Knt. Wife Joan dead. He died 6 Dec'r last and Christopher Thyrkeld is his son and next heir and is aged 42.

Christopher Threlkeld 3 & 4 Phil. & Mary. ((1556). Sept. 29. Inq. taken at Holden ? co. York, after the death of Christopher Threlkeld gent. deed. Manor of Esthorpe in said county &c., &c. &c. A capital messuage &c., in Touthorpe next Lonesburgh in said co. now in the tenure of Josia Threlkeld widow. Died 20 Sept. 2 & 3 Ph, & M. (1555), and Marmaduke Threlkeld Esq. is his son and next heir and is and was at the death of his said father aged 24 and more.

Marmaduke Threlkeld 35 Eliz. (1593). Oct. 29. Inq. taken at Pocklington co. York after the death of Marmaduke Threlkeld Esq. deed. Seized of the Manor of Easthorpe &c.. &c. By Indenture dated 20 June, 11 liliz. (1569), (between the said Marmaduke Thirkeld of Easthroppe lisq., of the one part and Anthony Langdaill of Santon of the other part) it was agreed that Richard Langdaill son and heir of the said Anthony and Joyce Thirlkeld daughter of the said Marmaduke should marry together. The marriage took place and they had issue William Langdaill and are both dead. Marmaduke Thirkeld died 10 March last and William Langdale son of the said Richard by the said Joyce is his next heir and is aged 16.

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William de Threlkeld or Thirdeld of Threlkeld, Cumberland (d 1409) mentioned on various web sites m. Margaret

1. Henry Threlkeld or Thirkeld of Threlkeld (d 1452) Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5 Vaughan of Sutton) starts with this Henry but does not identify his wife. Visitation (Yorkshire, 1563-4, Lomley) shows that the Sir Lancelot who married Margaret Bromflete was son of Henry by Maud, dau of Sir John Lomley, sister of Lord George who m. Elsabeth Thornton. That Visitation is not consistent with what we show for the Lumley family on Lumley02, apparently mixing-up various generations. Accordingly, we provisionally follow thse web sites which show the mother of Lancelot as . . . m. Margaret Thornburgh (dau of Roland Thornburgh)

A. Sir Lancelot Threlkeld or Thirkeld Sir Lancelot is variously described as 'of Threlkeld' (for Joan), 'of Malmerby' (for Margaret), and 'of Yeawith' (for Grace). Nevertheless, the Lancelot who married Margaret Bromflete is identified as the father of at least those daughters. However, Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5, Vaughan of Sutton) shows Grace as of the next generation. m. Margaret Bromflete (d 12. 04. 1483. dau of Sir Henry de Bromflete, Lord of Vescy, m1. John Clifford)

i. Sir Lancelot Threlkeld or Thirkeld

a. Elizabeth Threlkeld or Thirkeld m. James Pickering (son of Sir James by Anne Moreseby)

b. Grace Threlkeld or Thirkeld m. Thomas Dudley (aka Sutton)

c. Winifred Threlkeld or Thirkeld m. William Pickering (son of Sir James by Anne Moreseby)

ii. Christopher Threlkeld or Thirkeld (3rd son) m. Joan Carliell (dau of John Carleill by Elinor, dau of Laurence Acton son of Laurence son of Sir Laurence Acton by Elizabeth, dau of Sir William Sturmyn by Joane)

A branch of the Dudleys lived at Yeanwith, in cumberland.* Thomas Dudley, younger son of Edmund Dudley, and half brother of Edward, (second) Baron Dudley, and nephew of William, Bishop of Durnham, married Grace, daughter and co-heir of Sir Launcelot Threlkeld, of Threlkeld, in Co. Cumberland, and had the manor of Yeanwith by his marriage; he died in 1530. Among other issue, he had John Dudley, Lord of the Manor of Stoke Newington, near London, married to a rich heiress, Elizabeth, daughter of John Gardiner, of Grove Place, in Co. Bucks. This John Dudley was in high favor with Queen Elizabeth; he died in 1580, and was buried in the Church at Stoke Newington, where a handsome monument was erected, and is still to be seen in fine preservation.* In Nichols's Bibliotheca Toptgraphica Britannica, is a history of Stoke Newington, containing the following account: --

"In the chancel is a handsome monument fixed against the south wall, consisting of pillars of different marbles, forming two compartments, in one of which kneels a gentleman with a helmet behind him, and in the other, facing him, a lady with a daughter behind her; over him is inscribed --

Sir Edmund Dudley, called "Lord Dudley" and Chevalier," died before his father. He married first Joyce, daughter of Robert Lord Tiptoft, and had Sir Edward Dudley, b. 1450, K. G., heir to Sir John Sutton, his grandfather. Sir Edmund Dudley married second Lady Maud, daughter of Baron Clifford, the great soldier of Henry VI.

Thomas Dudley, fifth son of Edmund Dudley and halfbrother of Edward Dudley, fifth Baron Dudley, married Grace, daughter of Sir Launcelot Threlkeld of Yanwath, Comberland County, who died without male issue, leaving three daughters as coheirs. Grace inherited the Manor of Yanwath, Cumberland County. This manor was called "Yeanwith Westmerland" in inscription on a monument erected September 6, 1660, to Christopher Dudley in the churchyard of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields Church, near London. This Christopher Dudley was the last Dudley occupant of Yanwath Manor. Having no issue surviving, he sold it in 1654. Yanwath Hall is now one of the show-placed of the England Lake Country. It is on the southern shore of Ullswater Lake, the dividing line between Cumberland County on the north and Westmoreland County on the south.